Personally I think a government that is forced to use more than a single party to achieve a majority is the best possible government - so a tiny majority either way seems best to me. I laughed when TM said no-one in Europe would take such a government seriously - it is how so many European governments function.

And as for the encryption - my first thought, when she started on about it again, was 'I presume she doesn't use on-line banking...' S2C, who worked in on-line banking, and I decided it had never occurred to her that such things are, you know, encrypted.